Analysis of Cologne
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
In Köhln, a town of monks and bones,
And pavements fang'd with murderous stones
And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ;
I counted two and seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks !
Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne ;
But tell me, Nymphs, what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ?
Scheme | AABACCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011011101 010111001 0101010010 110101001 11010101 1111101001 01011111 11110101 111111001 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 299 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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